Garment support



Patented Apr. 18, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT SUPPORT Bend, Ind.

Application October 2,5, 1937, Serial No. 170,778

7 Claims.

This invention relates to supports for garments and has to Ido more particularly with a bodyencircling member adapted to have an apron or the like disposed thereon and an improved clip structure for retaining such garment in a desired position upon the member.

Heretcfore garment supporting members of the general class herein referred to have comprised a flexible resilient body-encircling member adapted to be detachably assembled with an apronor the like which h as a hemmed section along an upper edge. In such instances, the body-encircling member has been inserted through the hemmed section endwise thereof and the material of the apron adjacent to the ends of the hemmed section have been telescoped onto the body-encircling member Where they have been held in fixed relaf tion with said member by clamping means. Said the wearer of the device has occasion to come into close proximity.

An object of the present invention is the provision of an improved means for selectively and detachably holding an apron or other garment in place upon a body-encircling member.

Another object of the present invention is the provision of an improved guard means for securing a clasp to the end of a body-encircling member iny sucha fashion as will'greatlydiminish the likelihood of said clasp injuriously contacting such things as articles of furniture.

Still another object of the present invention is the provision of an improved garment support.-

ing member and clasp having the above recited characteristics and wherein the clasp is securely fastened in place upon the device by means of an improved combination of interlocking parts.

vThe above and other desirable objects of this invention are obtained by the novel arrangement and the improved combination of the parts described hereinafter in conjunction with the single sheet of drawings, hereby made a part of this application, and wherein: v

Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an embodiment of the invention assembled with an apron shown in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view showing an end section of the device illustrated in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Like reference characters are used throughout the various gures of the drawing and in the following description for designating similar parts.

Reference should first be had to Fig. 1 and particularly to a body-encircling member I0 which may be made of a fiat piece of spring steel or other suitable material having the desired characteristics of strength and resilience. Supported upon the body-encircling member I0 is an apron II having a hemmed section I2 along its upper edge. Said hemmed section l2 effects an elongated pocket open at its ends whereby the body-encircling member may be inserted into said hem section in such a manner that the ends of said member will be permitted to project outwardly from the ends of the hemmed section.

After the apron II has been assembled with the member I0 said member is placed upon the body of the wearer by separating the end sections of said member so that it may be placed about the trunk of the wearers body. Usually the ends of the member I 0 will be disposed backwardly of the wearer.

Means are provided for maintaining the apron ip the desired position upon the body-encircling member l0. 'One of such means is plainly illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3. f Both ends of the member I0 have secured thereon identical clip or clasping devices so that only one of such devices is here shown in detail.

Referring now to Figs. 2 and 3, one end of the body-engaging member I0 is engaged by a hook I3 upon one end of a at spring clip or clasp member Il. 'I'he main body section I5 of the clip Il extends in general parallelism with the juxtaposed section of the member I0 and has upon one end a jaw I 6 projecting toward the member I0. Said jaw i6 has a rounded point il which enables it to more effectively engage the material of the apron Il at its hemmed section vandthus hold such section of the apron in the desired position along the body-encircling member.

Subsequently to thus placing the clip I4 upon an end section of the member I0, a cap I8 of rubber or the like which has been lled with a substance I9, is inserted over the engaged ends of e member I0 and the clip I4 in the manner illustrated in Fig. 3. The substance I9 is in a liquid orplastic vcondition when the cap I8 is applied and hence is displaceable by and envelops the ends of the members I0 and I4 when the cap is thus opposes separation of the members I0 and I4 at this section. The substance I9 upon hardening, prevents lateral separation of the members I0 and I4 at their end portions interorlly of the cap I8, while the hook I3 uponthe member I4 precludes movement of said member I4 longitudinally of the member I0 in the direction 'force is adapted to be imparted to the member I 4 because of tension applied to the apron II.

When the hemmed portion I2 of the apron II is telescoped over the body-encircling member I0, the end sections of said hemmed portion are iirst carriedy beyond the jaws IB of the clips I4. Thereafter the jaws i6 are lifted from the member lil incident to flexing the spring clips it so that the end sections of the hemmed portion may then be moved a short distance toward their respective ends of the member iii and thus disposed beneath the jaws it. Thereupon the jaws are released and allowed to engage the end sections of the hemmed portion and hold the same in place upon the device. The apron Il will at this time be assembled with the body-encircling member l!! in the manner shown in Fig. 1.

By using separate pieces of material from which the clips I4 and the member I0 are formed, an effective clasp arrangement is provided wherein the jaw i6 may be directed toward the member it in a manner leaving no undesirable projecting parts. Furthermore, the cap I8 covers the engaged sections of the members I0 and I 4 so there will be no hard projecting'parts upon the extreme ends of the'device. y

A further advantage is obtained by virtue of the caps I8 being of large diameter at their closed ends and thus projecting a greater distance from the body of the wearer than the clip I4 or the member I0. In this manner the caps I8 are eiective for shielding objects which otherwise may be scratched or marred by the parts Il) or I4.

While the preferred embodiment of my ini of the invention may be embodied in other useful forms, and so it is intended that the scope of my vinvention will bein nowise limited excepting as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim:

1 A garment supporting device comprising an elongated resilient body-encircling member, a clip including a jaw at one end thereof, said clip being arranged with the jaw directed toward said member and having`a section at the other end thereof disposed in contiguity with an end section of said member, and a pliable retaining member covering the contiguous end sections of said clip and said member and providingv means for holding said clip and said member in assembly.

2. A garment holder comprising a body-encircling strip, a clip including at one end a. jaw directed toward said strip and having at the other end thereof a portion interlocking with an end portion of said strip, and means for holding said interlocking portions co-assembled, said holding means comprising a pliable material completely covering said interlocking portions.

3. A garment holder comprising an elongated body-encircling member, a resilient clip including at one end a jaw projecting toward and into co operative relation with said member and including lat the other end a portion interlocking with an end portion of said member, and means for holding said interlocking portions co-assembled. said holding means comprising a body of solidified substance enveloping said end portions and a cap of pliable material Adisposed over said body.

4. A garment supporting device comprising an elongated resilient body-encircling member, a clip including a jaw at one end and a hook at the opposite end thereof, said clip being disposed with said hook engaging an end of the bodyencircling member and with the jaw in cooperable gripping relation ywith said body-encircling member, and a retaining cap receiving said hooi; and the end of the body-encirciingmember engaged thereby, said cap having a neck portion iitting about said clip and said body-encircling member.

5. A garment supporting device comprising an elongated body-encircling member, a clip including a jaw at one end and a hook at the opposite endthereof, said clip being disposed with said hook engaging an end of the body-encircling member and .with the jaw in cooperable gripping relation with said body-encircling member, a body of solidified substance enveloping said hook and the end of the body-encircling member engaged thereby, and a cap of pliable material disposed over said body and having a. neck portion tting about said clip and said body-encircling member.

6. A garment holder comprising a body-ercircling strip, a clip including at one end a iaw directed toward said strip and having at the other end thereof a section disposed in contiguity with an end section of said member, and a pliable retaining member covering the contiguous end sections of said clip and said member for holding them in assembly, and said retaining member having an appreciably greater dimension transversely of said clip and said member than the ior combined transverse dimensions of'said clip and said member.

'7. A garment holder comprising a body-eni lcovering said contiguous sections, said sheath having an appreciably greater dimension transversely of said clip and said member than the combined transverse dimensions oi' said clip and said member.

L. H. LOZIER. 

